I got another Mac, and it is my own, and not Mac Air. I never thought I would purchase a Mac for myself, and the most recent model, but here I am.
There were a couple of things that I did for the first time with this Mac. my first trade-in (I traded in my old Mac Air), my first time applying, and getting an Apple card – for the sake of getting 0% financing for a year. They also said that I could order a physical card for this account – a “titanium card.” I ordered it; to be honest, I thought that the usage of the word “titanium” had no more to do with reality than multiple “gold,” “diamond,” or “sapphire.” But when the card arrived, it turned out that it was titanium! Which means it’s too thick to put her into my phone case.
But I guess, it’s OK since I have it in the Apple Wallet 🙂
Or and also, that was the first time I completely restored my new laptop from the time machine, and I was surprised that it actually worked (like I didn’t have to look for all the passwords and licenses one more time :))
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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I’ve owned a few Apple machines over the years and I still have my Mac G4 tricked out to a full 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. It gets used maybe three or four times a year. I’d probably have a new Mac for day-to-day use but that would be more than I can afford, not so much the machine itself (though that is an issue) but the software. I do like the Mac in general though I’ve owned a few lemons…
I actually use an old Compaq Prolinnea 486sx more often, about every fortnight on average. It boots in Windows 95 but I use it only as a “DOS box” since I do my finances using Borland’s dBase IV…
If you’re living on a limited income & savings, Linux is affordable and practical though some of the free software is work in progress quality.
New Mac IS expensive no matter the fixed income or not. That’s why I took this 0% financing. I know people who prefer Linux for a number of reasons, but I am not ready to make such sacrifice 🙂
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I’ve owned a few Apple machines over the years and I still have my Mac G4 tricked out to a full 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. It gets used maybe three or four times a year. I’d probably have a new Mac for day-to-day use but that would be more than I can afford, not so much the machine itself (though that is an issue) but the software. I do like the Mac in general though I’ve owned a few lemons…
I actually use an old Compaq Prolinnea 486sx more often, about every fortnight on average. It boots in Windows 95 but I use it only as a “DOS box” since I do my finances using Borland’s dBase IV…
If you’re living on a limited income & savings, Linux is affordable and practical though some of the free software is work in progress quality.
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New Mac IS expensive no matter the fixed income or not. That’s why I took this 0% financing. I know people who prefer Linux for a number of reasons, but I am not ready to make such sacrifice 🙂
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